Dependancies on libraries

[Bruce McGuire <br...@shaw.ca>]

Hello.

I have a project which depends on some libraries that I am building. Is 
it possible to have one build.xml file depend on another?

For example, my application depends on a.jar, which is a compilation of 
b.class and c.class. If b.java or c.java have changed since the last 
compile, when I run the build.xml for tha application, I would like it 
to compile b.java and c.java, which will in turn create a.jar, after 
which my application will compile.

I am brand new to Ant, and would appreciate any assistance.

Thanks,

Bruce.




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Re: Dependancies on libraries

[Bruce McGuire <br...@shaw.ca>]

Hello Stefan.

Thanks for the input. That is exactly what I wanted. I should have 
rtfm'ed better.

Thanks again.

Bruce.

Stefan Bodewig wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Nov 2002, Bruce McGuire <br...@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>>I have a project which depends on some libraries that I am
>>building. Is it possible to have one build.xml file depend on
>>another?
>>
>
>I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean.  Take a look at the
><ant> task.
>
>So if you have build file a.xml with a target A that depends on target
>B in build file b.xml you'd do something like
>
>a.xml:
>
>  <target name="A" depends="run-B-in-b.xml">
>     ...
>  </target>
>
>  <target name="run-B-in-b.xml">
>    <ant target="B" antfile="b.xml"/>
>  </target>
>
>or put the <ant> task directly into target A.
>
>Stefan
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Re: Dependancies on libraries

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002, Bruce McGuire <br...@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I have a project which depends on some libraries that I am
> building. Is it possible to have one build.xml file depend on
> another?

I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean.  Take a look at the
<ant> task.

So if you have build file a.xml with a target A that depends on target
B in build file b.xml you'd do something like

a.xml:

  <target name="A" depends="run-B-in-b.xml">
     ...
  </target>

  <target name="run-B-in-b.xml">
    <ant target="B" antfile="b.xml"/>
  </target>

or put the <ant> task directly into target A.

Stefan

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